A fascinating look at the life of doctors who perform abortions, and the decisions facing medical students considering the field.

The controversy starts in medical school, where abortion is not normally taught in formal courses. The field is accompanied by a lifestyle unlike any other specialty, “a subculture replete with drawn blinds, shredders, and security guards at professional conventions.”

Doctors often have to take their spouses’ surnames and deal with how to protect their children against anti-abortion activists. They have aware of their own safety at all times, like this doctor who “notices when a car slows as it drives by her house, and . . . isn’t comfortable sitting in her living room with the shades up.”

That’s some serious additional stress.

topics: abortion, pro-life